Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov

male, deceased (1989)
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Sovietphysicist, Nobel Peace Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Soviet dissident…soviet, Soviet nuclear program, physicist, Union of Soviet Republics
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21 1921 – December 14 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sa...
Lev Landau

Lev Landau

male, deceased (1968)
physicist, 1908-1968, Hero of Socialist Labor, Russian, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University, theoretical physics…soviet, Sovietphysicist, Victim of Soviet repressions, soviet union, Flag of the Soviet Union
Lev Davidovich Landau (January 22, 1908 - April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist of Jewish origin who made fundamental contributions to...
Igor Tamm

Igor Tamm

male, deceased (1971)
physicist, Hero of Socialist Labor, 1895-1971, Estonian-russians, From Vladivostok, Sovietphysicist
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm was a Russian physicist.
Igor Kurchatov

Igor Kurchatov

male, deceased (1960)
Simferopol gymnasium №1, Hero of Socialist Labor, armour, Russian, British, soviet…Sovietphysicist, Soviet nuclear program, Nuclear physicist, Soviet atomic bomb project, physicist
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (Russian: И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов was a Soviet/Russian physicist. He was the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb pro...
Abram Ioffe

Abram Ioffe

male, deceased (1960)
Hero of Socialist Labor, Jewish person, Sovietphysicist, Jewish, soviet, Russian…physicist
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (October 14, 1960) was a prominent Soviet/Russian physicist born in Ukraine.
Nikolay Basov

Nikolay Basov

male, deceased (2001)
Hero of Socialist Labor, voronezh, PhD, Nobel Prize in Physics, Lebedev Physical Institute, maser…physicist, Sovietphysicist
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov was a Russian physicist and educator. He was born in the town Usman, now in Lipetsk Oblast. For his fundamental work in...
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov

male, deceased (1990)
Hero of Socialist Labor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian, physicist, Sovietphysicist, Nobel Prize…Particle physicist
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904-1990) was a Russian physicist of great repute and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 for his...
Pyotr Kapitsa

Pyotr Kapitsa

male, deceased (1984)
Hero of Socialist Labor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Cavendish Laboratory, stalin, physicist, Sovietphysicist…Soviet hydrogen bomb project, soviet union, Flag of the Soviet Union
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was a Russian physicist who discovered superfluidity with contribution from John F. Allen and Don Misener in 1937....
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov

Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov

male, deceased (1951)
physicist, geneticist, Russian, soviet, Sovietphysicist, luminescence…Supreme Soviet, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences from July 1945 until his death....
Evgeny Lifshitz

Evgeny Lifshitz

male, deceased (1985)
Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz, general relativity, contributor to general relativity, Sovietphysicist, scientist, physics…physicist
Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz (February 21 1915 - October 29 1985) was a leading Soviet physicist from a Jewish origin and the brother of Ilya...